“Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that ye might know our affairs, and that he might comfort your hearts.”
I am sending him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are and that he may encourage your hearts — Tychicus serves as an instrument of parakalesis ('encouragement'), strengthening the community's commitment to prayer and perseverance.
Church Fathers on Ephesians 6:22
“Whom I have sent unto you,” says he, “for this very purpose, that you may know our state, and that he may comfort your hearts.” This language he employs, not without a purpose, but in consequence of what he had been saying previously; “having girded your loins, having on the breastplate,” etc., which are a token of a constant and unceasing advance; for hear what the Prophet says, “Let it be unto him as the raiment wherewith he covers himself, and for the girdle wherewith he…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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